[release] Business Card

[filburt1]

Author: filburt1
Description: Displays a cheesy business card in getinfo. Requires a forum with a white background and black text for it to look right.
Demo: None yet
Screenshot: http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/attachment.php?s=&postid=14705

Read the instructions before randomly uploading the images. Required images and instructions included in attached zip.

[filburt1]

Screenshot (I told you it was cheesy):

[lordofgun]

i like it!

[MustangBST]

I like it sorta I installed it but it clashed with my other profile look

Larry

[Marvdaman]

That would be cool, but like its ugly right there. Mayby putting it sdomewere else? Mayby in the profile?

[assassingod]

SWEET:D

[LoRDsTaR]

yeah nice

[Glenn379]

I don't know if Afterlab posts here or not, but i'd like someone to please show me how to do that. It somewhat resembles this. I'll give you the link (I'm talking about the card with birthday and registration) http://forums.ffrepublic.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1

[underburn]

Very very nice concept

*INSTALLS on Testboard*

[Buddha]

i like it too. i don't find it cheesy at all.
i haven't checked your instructions yet, but you should still be able to do it if your background isn't white... you'd just have to change the table properties. no biggie.
i think i may install this.
thanks.

[filburt1]

The shadow is made with images which is why you need the white background.

[Buddha]

i think it's great.
thanks.

i set it in its own table with a css border so that it would look good with the beige background i have.

[Greg Rentschler]

I like it too! Can this be used on pages other than getinfo? I run a construction type of forum where we could use this to allow members to post their business card. Also would it be difficult to add a field to the user profile for instance "company services" and have the contents (user supplied) be inserted onto the business card instead of a default comment?

Great work

Greg

[Buddha]

very easy to modify, however it wasn't designed with "stretching" in mind, which means that all of the outer images are a set size, so you'll have to make certain all of your options fit inside of that current setup.

[Matrixgl]

superb

[Jolly Jack]

I like this very much, but i've been asked if it can be altered to be used as a signature for members which would be displyed at bottom of their post, which they can alter the text, if its possible could someone guide me.

[Buddha]

go to modify templates, choose the style you want to change, select postbit templates and then postbit_signature. erase everything in there and insert
<!-- Business Card -->
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#F5F7F8" width="336" height="187">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="14"><img src="images/businesscard/top.gif" width="336" height="14"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="15" height="150"><img src="images/businesscard/left.gif" width="15" height="150"></td>
<td width="304" height="150">
<table width="304" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" height="150">
<tr>
<td width="1" valign="top">$post[avatar]</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><normalfont><b>$userinfo[username]</b></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>$userinfo[usertitle]<br>
<br>
<a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=mailform&userid=$userinfo[userid]">E-mail
me</a> | <a href="private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newmessage&userid=$userinfo[userid]">Send
me a PM</a> </smallfont></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="bottom">
<td colspan="2"><normalfont>$post[signature]</normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="17" height="150"><img src="images/businesscard/right.gif" width="17" height="150"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="23"><img src="images/businesscard/bottom.gif" width="336" height="23"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- Business Card -->

now this is the original size... i haven't changed the images at all. it'll be pretty big for a signature. also, you'll want to go into the postbit template and make certain to align the table that holds the signature, so that it's either left or right aligned (depending on how you want it to look in your postbit). also, you'll want to limit the amount of text that can be used for a signature, as well as limit line breaks (carriage returns), as this will disrupt the tables which house the images (the edges) and it won't look right.

you've got a good idea though... interesting.

*edit*
had to correct the avatar info for it to display properly in the postbit. tried it out and it looks pretty tight man. only thing is, it's too big. is getting me thinking about how i want my postbit to look though. hmmm...

[Buddha]

btw.
make certain to change the location of the images folder as need be.
you can change images/ to { imagesfolder}/ (without the space). that's what i have.

[Jolly Jack]

Thanks will give it a go

[Buddha]

hey filburt1, thought you might like to see what your inspiration brought about!
told you that i thought this idea for a business card was good, and i couldn't let go of the notion of putting it into the postbit somehow.
well, i fooled around, did some scanning, slicing and designing, and this is what i've got so far.
business card postbit (http://fulldvdreview.com/images/post_images/postbit_ss.jpg)

thanks for the inspiration buddy... i never would have thought of something like this on my own... and i think it looks great.
everythings stretchy, as i used mainly css for the background images.

hope you like it.
again, thanks.

[filburt1]

Very nice! :D

[Buddha]

thanks buddy.
:)

[Crazy Pete]

Would this be easily modified to be an option in the profile as opposed to showing up for everyone? If so, how would that be accomplished?

[Buddha]

don't quite understand what you mean, pete?
like you can choose to have a business card or not?

[filburt1]

If that's the case, then you can't without hacking.

[Crazy Pete]

Originally posted by Buddha
don't quite understand what you mean, pete?
like you can choose to have a business card or not?

Exactly. What I would like is to have primarily forum staff be able to use the business cards and have them show up only in their profiles, but technically anyone could also do so if they checked some sort of option in their profile.

It would also be nice if the text was more easily modifiable, and if a user didn't have the business card option enabled in their profile, it wouldn't show up at all in their profile.

I know this would be a bit more work, but would anyone feel like trying to take it on? My hacking skills aren't yet good enough to want to try it. :)

[Kikyourt]

I think it is really cheesy. Also, I like afterlabs card setup. Much more better, imo.

[Crazy Pete]

Originally posted by Kikyourt
Also, I like afterlabs card setup. Much more better, imo.

Where could I find that one?

[Crazy Pete]

Nevermind, I found it.

[indiamike]

I like this hack and have installed it on my own forum. My members also seem to like it.

One thing that was funky was the images, for some reason the color was off a bit and changed drastically from browser to browser. Greyish in IE, purplish in Netscape.

I altered the images for my own use as just a white box with a greyish table inside. (same images just color changed in Ps)

Nice though.

my profile page with this hack (http://www.indiamike.com/india/member.php?action=getinfo&username=indiamike)

Cheers
Mike

[partang2]

Very nice!

*Clicks install*